The Death Penalty

"The Death Penalty" is the last of three interconnected novellas written by Leslie Charteris and included in the tenth Saint book Once More the Saint published in 1933.

Plot
Soon after the events of the previous story ("The Man from St. Louis", with interior decorators still repairing the bomb damage), Templar gives up the lease on his new flat and he and Patricia move into a swank London hotel. But an unusual heat wave drives the two out of the city to the remote Isles of Scilly where Simon has learned an African dope smuggler whom he encountered five years earlier is joining forces with a British counterpart, adding white slavery into the mix. When his target ends up being killed by one of his victims, it is up to the Saint to arrange things so that the victims of the smuggler go free and the truly guilty parties are punished.

Television adaptation
"The Death Penalty" was adapted as an episode of The Saint starring Roger Moore and was first broadcast during the show's third season on December 3, 1964.